Gaia is a joint venture between Vestforbrænding and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), established with the mission to develop and operate one of Denmark’s most ambitious carbon capture projects. Rooted in municipal climate leadership and backed by international investment expertise, Gaia aims to set a new benchmark for large-scale CO₂ capture from waste-to-energy facilities.

At full scale, Gaia will capture up to 500,000 tonnes of CO₂ annually from Vestforbrænding’s facility in Glostrup — making it a central part of Denmark’s effort to decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors and reach its 2030 climate goals.

In May 2025 a key milestone was reached, as Gaia was pre-qualified by the Danish Energy Agency for its Carbon Capture and Storage Fund (CCS Fund). This comes on top of other significant milestones demonstrating Gaia's advanced project maturity, such as signing of a long-term flue gas agreement with Vestforbrænding, the final approval of Gaia's Environmental Impact Assessment and the signing of a long-term offtake agreement for carbon removal with Microsoft, one of the first long-term multi-year offtakes signed for a Waste to Energy carbon capture retrofit.

All these milestones place the project among the country’s most mature and impactful carbon capture initiatives and are a testament to Gaia’s readiness and the robustness of its development process.